Tag: facts and evidence

• Some Things Still Need Explaining

  

  Thoughts on Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020). I have thought a lot about this book, and what I think about it, and why, mainly because I felt ambivalent about it, and because friends who also read it described feeling differently. Maybe I have thought about it so much, then, because I felt defensive, […]

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  October 1, 2020

  Read Me Project

  books, Caste, critical thinking, facts and evidence, Isabel Wilkerson, race, reading

• Think of it as a Learning Experience

  

  Steele, Claude M. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. W.W. Norton, 2010. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] This is not a book about race in the United States. And yet, it is not not a book about race in the United States, either. The concepts the author explores […]

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  March 26, 2020

  Read Me Project

  books, facts and evidence, identity, learning, psychology, race, socialization, theory